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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1955
  • Latest Book:
    March 2019
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Book List in Order: 24 titles








  • Winner of the Caldecott Medal
    Thus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man packs his goods - the wool from his sheep, the shawl his ...



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  • Distinguished poet Donald Hall and award-winning artist Barry Moser have teamed up to create a hilarious, affectionate portrait in contrasts of our companions, and often best friends, a cat and a dog. With evocative words and masterful paintings, the...



  • Highly respected poets, Hall and Emblem have chosen classical and contemporary selections to make this a delightful writer's companion, now in it's ninth edition. A Writer's Reader is a collection of essays, short stories, and poems organized alp...



  • Enjoying the annual baseball game between the married and single men in his community, twelve-year-old Willard Babson assists talented baseball star Babe Ruth when the latter's car accidentally slides into a ditch....





  • A fictional history of a New England town celebrates the cycles of growth, change, and renewal, as the town of Blackwater prospers, goes through a decline, and then prospers again, when everyone comes back to visit on "Old Home Day."...






  • A collection of stories by the former US poet laureate, “a first-rate work by an author whose control over the tools of his genre is impeccable” (Publishers Weekly).A contemplative selection of twelve short stories from the celebrated author Dona...








  • Lucy Wells likes planning ahead. In her quaint New England town the leaves have just begun to change, but Lucy is already thinking of Christmas. She begins to make presents for her family: a pincushion for Mother, a doll for her sister, and a pen-wip...



  • Former Poet Laureate Donald Hall grew up spending his summers on his grandfather Keniston's farm in what was then rural New Hampshire. It was there that his mother, Lucy, and her sister Caroline, had grown up, milking cows, raising sheep and telling ...



  • Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond. It’s the Christmas season of 1940, and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparent...



  • A Caldecott winner and contemporary classic celebrates a 40th anniversary In 1979, Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney's OX-CART MAN was published to universal acclaim, going on to win the coveted Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished picture book...


Award-Winning Books by Donald Hall

Ox-Cart Man
1980 Caldecott Medal -- Picture Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Donald Hall has published 24 books.

Donald Hall does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ox-Cart Man 40th Anniversary, was published in March 2019.

The first book by Donald Hall, Exiles and Marriages, was published in January 1955.

No. Donald Hall does not write books in series.